Physics Lab Handouts

AP Statistical Analysis Guidelines

Statistical Analysis Notes

UofPenn Lab Manual - Error Section

UofPenn Lab Manual - Graphing

Rice University Lab Manual - Error Section

01-1:Fortune Fish Lab

01-1: Fortune Fish Lab (Grading Rubric)

01-2:Excel Lab

01-2: Excel Lab (Grading Rubric)

01-7: Circumference Analysis

01-7:Density Table

01-V1: Graphing Lines (Demo-PhET)

01-V2: Curve Fit - Least Square

01-7: Error Analysis Check List

02-1:What's my motion Part 1

02-1:What's my Motion Pasco Files

02-1:What's my Motion Part 2 Pasco Files

02-4: Remote Control Car Inquiry Lab

02-7: Does Paper Fall Like a Book Activity

02-9: Picket Fence Free Fall

02-11:Reaction Time

04-6: Projectile Lab

05-1:Inertia Balance

05-2:Mass vs. Weight

05-2:Mass vs. Weight Capstone File

05-V1: Forces and Motion (Demo-PhET)

05-3:Newton's Third Law

05-3:Newton's Third Law Capstone File

05-4: Weight on an Elevator Demo

05-4: Weight on an Elevator Lab

05-5:Static Equilibrium - Hanging Lab

05-6:Static Equilibrium - Incline Plane Lab

05-8: Atwood's Machine

06-9:Friction Lab

06-V1: Friction (Demo-PhET)

06-10: Friction Graph

06-11: Pressure Lab

06-12: Coffee Filter Lab

06-13: Viscosity

07-3:Measure Your Own Power

07-V1: Energy Skate Park(Demo-PhET)

07-V2: Conservation of Energy in the Skate Park (Concord Consortium Activity)

07-4: Conservation of Energy Lab (Motion Sensor)

07-5: Conservation of Energy Lab (Photogate)

08-V3: Masses & Springs(Demo-PhET)

08-7: Hooke's Law, The Period of a Spring, and Elastic Potential Energy

08-7: Hooke's Law, The Period of a Spring, and Elastic Potential Energy Data Table

08-V4: Spring Energy(Demo)

08-7: Part 4 Example

08-V5: Pendulum Lab(Demo-PhET)

08-9:Pendulum

08-9: Pendulum Table

09-V1: 1D Collision(Demo-PhET)

09-V2: 2D Collision(Demo-PhET)

09-1: Momentum and Impulse

09-1: Momentum and Impulse Capstone File

09-3: Conservation of Momentum

09-3: Conservation of Momentum Capstone File

10-2:Torque Lab

10-V1: Torque (Demo-PhET)

11-3:Moment of Inertia Lab

12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab

12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab (NEW)

12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab Capstone File (NEW)

12-3: Amusement Park Swing (Demo)

12-V1: Horizontal Circles (Demo)

12-V1: Vertical Circles(Demo)

12-5: Kepler's 3 Laws Lab

12-V1: Kepler's 1st Law Laws(Demo)

12-V2: Kepler's Second Laws(Demo)

12-V2: Kepler's Second Laws(Demo 2)

12-V3: Newton's Cannon (Demo)

12-V3: Planetary Motion (Demo)

12-V4: The Seasons(Demo)

12-V5: Lunar Phase(Demo)

12-V6: Eclipses(Demo)

12-V7: Escape Velocity(Demo)

13-2:Waves on a String

13-2: Waves on a String Data Sheet

13-1: Simple Harmonic Motion

13-2: Waves on a String (Inquiry Based)

13-2: Waves on a String (Inquiry Based)(Grading Rubric)

14-1: Longitudinal Waves on a Spring (DEMO)

14-2:Speed of Sound

14-2 Oscilloscope / Signal Generator Introduction

14-2:Speed of Sound

14-3:Chladni Plates (DEMO)

14-4:Intensity of Sound

14-5: Sympathetic Tuning Fork and Beat (Demo)

14-V1: Doppler Effect(Demo)

14-6:Doppler Rocket (Demo)

14-6:String Telephone (Demo)

14-7:Bell in the Jar (Demo)

14-8: Speakers Creating Interference

14-V8: Beats (Demo)

15-V1: Buoyancy (Demo-PhET)

15-2: Archimedes' Principal Lab (W/Balance).pdf

15-2: Archimedes' Principal Lab (W/ Force Senor).pdf

15-V2: Balloons (Demo-PhET)

15-V3: Fluid, Pressure, and Flow (Demo-PhET)

15-17: Bernoulli's Principle

15-18: Flow Rate - Tower/Can Problem

15-20: Flow Rate - Water Fall

16-V1: Gas Properties (Demo-PhET)

16-V1: States of Matter (Demo-PhET)

17-1: Transfer of Heat in Liquids

17-2: Specific Heat of a Solid

17-2: Specific Heat of a Solid Spreadsheet

17-3:Heat of Fusion

17-V2: Energy Forms and Changes (Demo-PhET)

17-5: A Cool Glass of Water Case Study

19-1:Triboelectric Series

19-2:Electroscope (Demo)

19-V1: John Travoltage (Demo-PhET)

19-V2: Balloons and Static Electricity(Demo-PhET)

19-4: Charge Producers and Proof Plane(Introduction)

19-5:Faraday's Ice Pail

19-6:Charge Distribution

19-V4: Electrostatics (Concord Consortium Activity)

19-7:Coulomb's Law

19-V4: Charges and Fields (Demo-PhET)

19-V5: Electric Field of Dreams (Demo-PhET)

19-V6: Electric Field Hockey (Demo-PhET)

19-9: Electric Field Mapping

19-9: Electric Field Mapping (Additional Layouts)

20-V1: Capacitors (Demo-PhET)

20-2: Parallel Plate Capacitors

20-3: Parallel Plate Capacitors (Pasco)

20-4:Breadboard

20-4:Breadboard Model Simulator

20-4: Capacitors in Series and Parallel

20-V2: Capacitors and Spring Comparison

21-1A:Penny Battery

21-1B:Lemon Battery

21-V1: Voltaic Cell(Demo-Simulation)

21-V2: Ohm's Law (Demo-PhET)

21-V3: Resistance in a Wire (Demo-PhET)

21-V4: Battery-Resistor Circuit (Demo-PhET)

21-V5: Electric Current(Concord Consortium Activity)

21-V6: DC Circuit Construction Kit(Demo-PhET)

21-3:Propagated

21-3: Propagated

21-4:What is a Multimeter

21-4.5:Properties of Resistance Inquary Lab

21-4:Advanced Multimeter

21-4:Multimeter Worksheet

21-5: Series and Parallel DC Circuits

21-5: Circuit Analysis (Inquiry Based)

21-6:Resistors Lab 1 and 2

21-6:Resistors Lab 4, 5 and 6

21-7:Ohm's Law

21-8:Kirchoff's Law

21-9:Wheatstone Bridge

21-10:RC Circuit Lab

21-12:Electric Equivalent of Heat

22-1: Dip Needle

22-V1: Earths Magnetic Field(Demo-PhET)

22-V2: Magnetic Field Lines(Demo-PhET)

22-3: 3-D Magnetic Field Demonstrator

22-V3: Ampere's Law (Demo)

22-7: Counter Balance (2 Amp Max)

23-V1: Faraday's Law(Demo-PhET)

23-V2: Faraday's Law / Transformers/Generators(Demo-PhET)

23-4: Electromagnetic Induction (Pasco Voltage Sensor)

24-1:AC Electronics Labs

25-1: Polarization - Law of Malus'

26-1:Reflection

26-2:Snell's Law

26-V1: Bending Light(Demo-PhET)

26-3: Total Internal Reflection

26-V2: Virtual Optics Bench

26-V3: Geometric Optics(Demo-PhET)

26-5:Lenses

26-6:Hallow Lenses

26-7:Apparent Depth

26-8: Reversibility and Dispersion

26-12:Shadows

26-13V:Reflection Simulation

26-13V:Reflection Simulation

26-13V:Refraction Simulation

26-13V:Lens Simulation

26-12:Shadows

26-12:Shadows

27-V1: Color Vision(Demo-PhET)

27-2:Color

27-3:Human Eye

27-4:Magnifier

27-7/8:Telescope and Microscope

27-7:Telescope (Old)

26-13V:Telescope Simulation

27-8:Microscope (Old)

28-V1: Wave Interference (Demo-PhET)

28-4: Radiometer (light-mill)

26-13V:Doulbe Slit Simulation

26-13V:Diffraction Simulation

29-V1: Relativity Thought Experiment(Virtual Lab)

29-V2: Space Travel Rocket(Demo)

29-V3: Gravitational Lensing(Demo)

30-V1: Black Body Radiation(Demo-PhET)

30-V2: Photoelectric Effect(Demo-PhET)

30-V3: Quantum Tunneling(Demo-PhET)

31-V1: Rutherford Scattering (Demo-PhET)

31-V2: Model Hydrogen Atom(Demo-PhET)

31-V3: Bohr Atom(Demo)

31-V4: Spectroscopy (Concord Consortium Activity)

31-V5: Neon Lights(Demo-PhET)

31-V6: Lasers(Demo-PhET)

32-V1: Alpha Decay (Demo-PhET)

32-V2: Beta Decay (Demo-PhET)

32-V2: Decay Rate (Demo)

32-V2: Decay Series (Demo)

32-V3: Nuclear Fission(Demo-PhET)

33-V1: Transistors(Concord Consortium Activity)

Amusement Park Physics